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Yup. A child funcions.php file is the one file that will NOT override the parent file. It adds to it. So you have to make sure your functions have unique names.

So you can move child specific functions to a file named functions.php in the child theme folder?

Tried it. It works! Nice. I’m cleaning up my messy custom theme and this helps a lot.

Thanks for the confirmation r-a-y!